Friday, 5 November 2010
Eight Pencil Eyes
Nine Pencil Noses
Just a little exercise in getting shadows and angles right. Excuse the photo quality: they're all quite close together, and my camera has never liked close-ups - I might have said before, but a gap between the picture and the camera of less than about two feet makes it blur horribly!
Top hat, small hands.
While not too bad if the components are taken separately, this drawing looks a bit unbelievable if you haven't seen the hat... It really does dwarf your head like that, honest! This drawing looked horribly out of proportion, especially the hands, so I thought I'd practice features on their own and see if getting the detail better would help with the overall effect and make it a bit easier to see where it was wrong before I finished it off, hence the next few exercises.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Quick charcoal face
A quick charcoal-shaded drawing in front of the mirror. Since I'm attending life drawing classes at the moment (the drawings from that are in another book), I'm trying to get in a little practice with charcoal.
Pencil drawing in bonnet
I've done a few drawings of myself in different hats in my book, and this my medium-sized bonnet. I should have some pictures up of it on the sewing blog. The main lace pattern is quite nice, and the face isn't too bad, but the netting around the edge was a nightmare!
Ink portrait in Victorian gown
To follow up the previous two drawings (and I'm sorry there's been a bit of a gap, I've been doing most of my work in a book), I did another large drawing of the same subject to colour. This time I simplified the background a little so the detail on the dress was more important to the overall picture. I'd marked out all the wallpaper when I thought it could do with something extra, hence the perhaps-not-quite-appropriate lamps (IKEA). It's fun all the same, and nice to look at, except for the face, which was a little small to get the detail properly on in the end.
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